{"product_id":"disasters-in-the-first-world-stories-9780802126610","title":"Disasters in the First World: Stories","description":"Olivia Clare's delightfully strange and tender debut collection traces the impact of larger-than-life forces on everyday people. From siblings whose relationship is as fragile as glass, to a woman grappling with both an emotional and physical drought, to a superstitious spouse fearful of misfortune, \u003ci\u003eDisasters in the First World\u003c\/i\u003e explores the real and the imagined, environmental and man-made calamities, and the human need to comprehend the unknown. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \"Pittsburgh in Copenhagen,\" a man and a woman confront infidelity and estrangement as they share one last night together. \"P tur\" tells the tale of a son who takes his mother on an Icelandic vacation only to be stranded there by a volcanic eruption. \"Rusalka's Long Legs\" follows a young girl's treacherously long walk through the woods with her unpredictable mother. And in \"The Visigoths,\" an older sister finally breaks through to her idiosyncratic brother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With precision and grace, the thirteen stories in this collection capture the fragility of troubled lives caught in disrupted turbulence, moments of connection--no matter how fleeting. Through these intimate, profoundly moving worlds, Clare's voice rises as a distinctive new American storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlivia Clare's\u003c\/b\u003e fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories, Granta, n+1, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, \u003c\/i\u003e among other publications, and she is the author of a book of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe 26-Hour Day\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds master's degrees from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Southern California, and she was recently a Black Mountain Institute Ph.D. Fellow at University of Nevada. She teaches creative writing at Sam Houston State University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press, Black Cat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492044345618,"sku":"9780802126610","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fb2e8a12-cc33-4505-ba68-adb099e45ad4.jpg?v=1730568867","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disasters-in-the-first-world-stories-9780802126610","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}